Martin A Makary

Summary

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. Operating room debriefings
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, The John Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:407-10, 357
  2. Reduction of in-hospital mortality among California hospitals meeting Leapfrog evidence-based standards for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
    Benjamin S Brooke
    Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Vasc Surg 47:1155-6; discussion 1163-4
  3. Creating high reliability in health care organizations
    Peter J Pronovost
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, and Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University, 1901 Thames Street, 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
    Health Serv Res 41:1599-617
  4. Teamwork in the operating room: frontline perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnel
    J Bryan Sexton
    The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Anesthesiology 105:877-84
  5. Medical considerations in older surgical patients
    Colleen Christmas
    Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 203:746-51
  6. Human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis testing and prevalence among surgical patients in an urban university hospital
    Eric S Weiss
    Department of Surgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Am J Surg 193:55-60
  7. Publication bias in surgery: implications for informed consent
    Dora Syin
    Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Surgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    J Surg Res 143:88-93
  8. Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 204:236-43
  9. Surgical specimen identification errors: a new measure of quality in surgical care
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, Center for Surgical Outcomes Research, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Surgery 141:450-5
  10. Achieving the National Quality Forum's "Never Events": prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient operations
    Robert K Michaels
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Ann Surg 245:526-32

Detail Information

Publications28

  1. Operating room debriefings
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, The John Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:407-10, 357
    ..This tool helps assess factors that positively and negatively contributed to an adverse event, near miss, or inefficiency during an operation-or any procedure...
  2. Reduction of in-hospital mortality among California hospitals meeting Leapfrog evidence-based standards for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
    Benjamin S Brooke
    Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Vasc Surg 47:1155-6; discussion 1163-4
    ..Further studies are needed to help promote the standardization of evidence-based measures that may improve vascular surgery outcomes...
  3. Creating high reliability in health care organizations
    Peter J Pronovost
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, and Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University, 1901 Thames Street, 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
    Health Serv Res 41:1599-617
    ....
  4. Teamwork in the operating room: frontline perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnel
    J Bryan Sexton
    The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Anesthesiology 105:877-84
    ..This tool and initial benchmarks allow others to compare their teamwork climate to national means, in an effort to focus more on what excellent surgical teams do well...
  5. Medical considerations in older surgical patients
    Colleen Christmas
    Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 203:746-51
  6. Human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis testing and prevalence among surgical patients in an urban university hospital
    Eric S Weiss
    Department of Surgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Am J Surg 193:55-60
    ..Testing of patients during a surgical admission may represent an excellent opportunity for early disease-specific services and preventive interventions...
  7. Publication bias in surgery: implications for informed consent
    Dora Syin
    Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Surgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    J Surg Res 143:88-93
    ..4-fold higher than those reported in the literature. Proper informed consent for surgical procedures should include an accurate description of the risks, using actual local and national mortality rates...
  8. Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 204:236-43
    ..4% agreed prebriefing, 64.4% agreed postbriefing, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: OR briefings significantly reduce perceived risk for wrong-site surgery and improve perceived collaboration among OR personnel...
  9. Surgical specimen identification errors: a new measure of quality in surgical care
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, Center for Surgical Outcomes Research, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Surgery 141:450-5
    ..Strategies to reduce the rate of these errors should be a research priority...
  10. Achieving the National Quality Forum's "Never Events": prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient operations
    Robert K Michaels
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Ann Surg 245:526-32
    ..We have outlined a framework of measures that healthcare organizations can use to start evaluating whether they have reduced adverse events in operations...
  11. Needlestick injuries among surgeons in training
    Martin A Makary
    Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Surgery, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Baltimore 21231, USA
    N Engl J Med 356:2693-9
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Needlestick injuries are common among surgeons in training and are often not reported. Improved prevention and reporting strategies are needed to increase occupational safety for surgical providers...
  12. Interdisciplinary medical, nursing, and administrator education in practice: the Johns Hopkins experience
    Jo M Walrath
    Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Acad Med 81:744-8
    ..In spite of these challenges steps have been identified to further enhance and develop interdisciplinary education within this academic setting...
  13. Operating room briefings: working on the same page
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:351-5
    ....
  14. Sharpless surgery: a prospective study of the feasibility of performing operations using non-sharp techniques in an urban, university-based surgical practice
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    World J Surg 30:1224-9
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Select common procedures can be performed entirely with sharpless techniques, eliminating the risk to surgical personnel associated with intraoperative percutaneous injuries...
  15. Multimodality treatment for esophageal cancer: the role of surgery and neoadjuvant therapy
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
    Am Surg 69:693-700; discussion 700-2
    ..Further studies are needed to evaluate the role of preoperative chemoradiation and to better identify the pretreatment characteristics of patients with a complete pathological response...
  16. The role of magnetic resonance cholangiography in the management of patients with gallstone pancreatitis
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    Ann Surg 241:119-24
    ..MRC is an effective noninvasive screening tool for CBD stones, appropriately selecting candidates for preoperative ERCP and sparing others the need for an endoscopic procedure with its associated complications...
  17. Resection of the celiac axis for invasive pancreatic cancer
    Martin A Makary
    Departments of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    J Gastrointest Surg 9:503-7
    ..The patient's postoperative course was unremarkable. En bloc resection of the celiac axis and hepatic artery may be safely performed in select patients with localized pancreatic cancer invading these vessels...
  18. Prevalence of blood-borne pathogens in an urban, university-based general surgical practice
    Eric S Weiss
    Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    Ann Surg 241:803-7; discussion 807-9
    ..Given the high incidence of these infections, strategies such as sharpless surgical techniques should be evaluated and implemented to protect surgeons from blood-borne pathogens...
  19. A system factors analysis of "line, tube, and drain" incidents in the intensive care unit
    Dale M Needham
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Crit Care Med 33:1701-7
    ..Focusing on these contributing factors and clinician knowledge and skills is important for reducing and preventing these hazardous events...
  20. Pancreaticoduodenectomy in the very elderly
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Gastrointest Surg 10:347-56
    ..The advent of improved surgical outcomes and an aging population will likely result in a significant increase in the number of PDs performed in the next few decades...
  21. Clinical and economic outcomes of hospital acquired pneumonia in intra-abdominal surgery patients
    David A Thompson
    Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Baltimore, MD 21231 3305, USA
    Ann Surg 243:547-52
    ..13 dollars) mean increase in total hospital charges. CONCLUSIONS: Given the high incidence and significant impact of HAP on patient outcomes, early preventive strategies and interventions to reduce HAP should be a priority...
  22. A practical tool to learn from defects in patient care
    Peter J Pronovost
    The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:102-8
  23. Patient safety in surgery
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Ann Surg 243:628-32; discussion 632-5
    ..Scores on the SAQ can serve to evaluate interventions to improve patient safety...
  24. Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 202:746-52
    ..The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire can be used to measure teamwork, identify disconnects between or within disciplines, and evaluate interventions aimed at improving patient safety...
  25. Intensive care unit safety incidents for medical versus surgical patients: a prospective multicenter study
    David J Sinopoli
    UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
    J Crit Care 22:177-83
    ..Common initiatives to improve patient safety for medical and surgical patients should be undertaken with a specific focus on improving training and teamwork among the intensive care team...
  26. Laparoscopic transduodenal sphincteroplasty
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, USA
    J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A 16:629-32
    ..This technique offers a new approach to the management of common bile duct stones, and can spare patients the need for an open operation or subsequent endoscopic procedures...
  27. Benefits of prophylactic continuous infusion of furosemide after the maze procedure for atrial fibrillation
    Niv Ad
    Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
    J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 123:232-6
    ....
  28. What is the quality of surgery-related information on the internet? Lessons learned from a standardized evaluation of 10 common operations
    Irina Yermilov
    Department of Surgery, Greater West Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 207:580-6
    ..But information on some topics, such as risks of not undergoing surgery, remains poor and requires discussion between the surgeon and patient...